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7206457 Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding key value data of coordinate interpolator  
A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator used in a three-dimensional graphic animation are provided. The apparatus for encoding key value data of...
7203235 Architecture and method for fine granularity scalable video coding  
A robust fine granularity scalability video encoding includes a base layer encoder and an enhancement layer encoder in which motion compensated difference images are generated by comparing an...
7203236 Moving picture reproducing device and method of reproducing a moving picture  
A moving picture reproducing device includes a compressed data buffer, a display size obtaining unit, a resolution selecting unit, four kinds of resolution decoding units, and a frame data buffer....
7203371 Tarp filter  
Systems and methods for performing adaptive filtering are disclosed. The present invention generates probabilities that can be used in an encoder, such as an arithmetic encoder and generates those...
7200275 Skip macroblock coding  
Various techniques and tools for encoding and decoding (e.g., in a video encoder/decoder) binary information (e.g., skipped macroblock information) are described. In some embodiments, the binary...
7187803 Motion detecting device and search region variable-shaped motion detector  
An overall motion detecting device ( 1 ) includes a search region variable-shaped motion detector ( 2 ) and an overall motion information generator ( 3 ). The overall motion information generator (...
7184603 System and method for lossless compression of digital images  
A method for improving lossless image compression by using multiple lossless image compression techniques and adapting the best one to each image. An RGB compressor receives an image file and...
7181072 Intra compression of pixel blocks using predicted mean  
An apparatus and method for encoding video frames is provided. The video frames are divided into blocks for encoding. Encoding of the video blocks utilizes motion detection, motion estimation and...
7173971 Trailing artifact avoidance system and method  
A system and method is provided to avoid or otherwise reduce luminance and/or chrominance trailing artifacts in block-based hybrid video coders using multiple block sizes and shapes. The proposed...
7170941 Temporal compression  
The present invention discloses a temporal compressor and decompressor for sequences of images. The compressor includes an interface for receiving the sequence of images. A spatial compressor...
7167521 Video encoding apparatus and video decoding apparatus  
An alpha-map encoding apparatus includes a first down-sampling circuit ( 21 ) for down-sampling an alpha-map signal which represents the shape of an object and the position in the frame of the...
7167591 Image encoding method and image decoding method  
The present invention provides an image coding method and an image decoding method by which an image can be restored correctly even if part of memory management information is lost by a...
7164717 Systems and methods for detecting scene changes in a video data stream  
The present invention is related to video encoding. In an embodiment, a first root mean squared (RMS) value is calculated for a first frame relative to a second frame, and a second frame relative...
7161983 Adaptive motion vector field coding  
A method for motion compensated encoding of video data. The method comprises the steps of: generating a motion vector field of video pixels of a current frame to be coded based on a...
7155057 Apparatus for and method of processing image and apparatus for and method of encoding image  
An image of lower spatial resolution is converted into an image of higher spatial resolution efficiently and highly accurately. For such conversion, pixel data is expressed by vectors in a color...
7149249 Color video codec method and system  
In one aspect of a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises a system for video compression comprising a video preprocessor; a predictor configured to receive video data from the...
7149251 Apparatus, and associated method, for forming a compressed motion vector field utilizing predictive motion coding  
Apparatus, and an associated method, motion compensates coding of video sequences. Motion compensated prediction is utilized in the representation of motion vector fields. Reduced numbers of bits...
7149250 Video encoding method  
The present invention relates to an encoding method processing video object planes (VOPs) of I, P or B type and including a dynamic allocation of said VOPs. According to said method, for each input...
7145946 MPEG video drift reduction  
A drift reduction method and apparatus. Drift reduction is effected in an MPEG video transcoder by decoding dropped out pixels to form a drift reference frame. The quantization indices in the...
7146052 Image processing apparatus and surveillance camera system utilizing the same  
A surveillance camera system includes a multiplexer. The multiplexer successively selects image data output from each surveillance camera one by one so as to input the selected image data to an...
7139317 Segment-based encoding system using exposed area filling performed by an encoder and a decoder  
An encoding system encodes and decodes video data using an exposed area fill processor. A nonkey frame is encoded as a set of kinetic information relating segments of a reference frame to the...
7136533 Color image compression with adaptive prediction  
Compression and reconstruction of a digital image are both performed by accessing a plurality of color caches corresponding to different chromatic contexts, selecting a color cache for a pixel...
7130473 System and method for robust video coding using progressive fine-granularity scalable (PFGS) coding  
A video encoding scheme employs progressive fine-granularity layered coding to encode video data frames into multiple layers, including a base layer of comparatively low quality video and multiple...
7126989 Image coding method and image decoding method  
A picture coding apparatus ( 300 ) is a picture coding apparatus that codes a difference between picture data (Img) representing an input picture and predictive picture data (Pred) representing a...
7123654 Method and apparatus to encode a moving image with fixed computational complexity  
An apparatus and method thereof to encode a moving image include a discrete cosine transform (DCT) unit performing a DCT process on input video data, a quantizer, and a motion estimation (ME) unit...
7113644 Image coding apparatus and image coding method  
An image coding apparatus includes a coding unit 100 for generating a code A, a coding unit 110 for generating a code B, an image reproduction unit 200, an image reproduction memory 204, ...
7113646 Decoding of predicted AC coefficient without division  
A technique for eliminating the division in decoding a predicted AC coefficient includes calculating and storing the values of I//AC_stepsize in a table. This allows one to convert a division into...
7113543 Video encoding  
Motion compensation as for video compression with motion estimation with either frame mode or field mode by initial prediction of motion mode and when prediction error is small enough truncate...
7110452 Systems and methods for detecting scene changes in a video data stream  
The present invention is related to video encoding. In an embodiment, a first root mean squared (RMS) value is calculated for a first frame relative to a second frame, and a second frame relative...
7110450 Moving picture encoding apparatus  
Deterioration of picture quality is prevented even in a transmission environment in which errors easily occur. A block significance determining section produces block significance for each block as...
7106907 Adaptive error-resilient video encoding using multiple description motion compensation  
A method estimates bit rates for sets of coding parameters, based on characteristics of a channel, and an end-to-end distortion is estimated based on signal statistics of the video. A particular...
7106910 Color video coding scheme  
Embodiments of a color video coding and decoding scheme are disclosed. In one embodiment, an efficient color coding scheme for color video using three dimensional (3-D) discrete wavelet transforms...
7106366 Image capture system incorporating metadata to facilitate transcoding  
A method for generating an enhanced compressed digital image, including the steps of: capturing a digital image; generating additional information relating to the importance of photographed subject...
7099390 Prediction apparatus, encoding apparatus, inverse prediction apparatus, decoding apparatus, and computing apparatus  
A candidate prediction block storage unit stores candidate prediction pixel data {“a” to “p”} (a four-by-four area) and neighboring pixel data {“A” to “D”}. A neighboring pixel...
7099392 Motion vector searching method using plural search areas  
A motion vector searching system and method estimates a motion vector during image compression by acquiring a present image frame and at least one previous image frame, generating low-resolution...
7099511 Method and apparatus for coding and decoding image data using critical points  
An image data coding and decoding technique which realizes most efficient compression of the image data. The image data are input and separated into key frames and other intermediate frames....
7099515 Bitplane coding and decoding for AC prediction status information  
In one aspect, an encoder/decoder selects a bitplane mode from a group of plural available bitplane modes, and processes a bitplane according to the selected bitplane mode, wherein the bitplane...
7092576 Bitplane coding for macroblock field/frame coding type information  
In one aspect, for a first interlaced video frame in a video sequence, a decoder decodes a bitplane signaled at frame layer for the first interlaced video frame. The bitplane represents field/frame...
7092575 Moving image encoding apparatus and moving image encoding method  
An encoding preprocessing part 1 extracts the amount of image feature relative to image data and passes the amount of image feature to a control part 2 as image feature amount information 11 ...
7088868 Compression and decompression coding scheme and apparatus  
In a compression and decompression coding method, arrangement and computer program product, a data signal containing a number of symbols is converted into a series of codewords. A set of codewords...
7082164 Multimedia compression system with additive temporal layers  
A multimedia compression system for generating frame rate scaleable data in the case of universally scaleable data. Universally scaleable data is scaleable across all of the relevant...
7072492 Method and apparatus for digital watermarking  
A method for embedding digital watermark data in digital data contents includes the steps of obtaining a frequency coefficient of block data of digital data contents, obtaining a complexity of the...
7068850 Decoding of predicted DC coefficient without division  
A technique for eliminating the division in decoding a predicted DC coefficient includes calculating and storing the values of 1//DC_scalar in a table. This allows one to convert a division into a...
7068722 Content adaptive video processor using motion compensation  
A system and method for providing a method for reducing artifacts in a video sequence of image frames is disclosed. The method and system include classifying scenes in the sequence of image frames,...
7065139 Video encoding method and video encoder for improving performance  
Video encoding methods and video encoders that provide improved performance while reducing power consumption. In one aspect, a video encoding method comprises the steps of outputting a parameter...
7061980 Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing method, and video processing apparatus  
An object-region-data describing method for describing object region data relating to a time-series variation of an object region in video data including a plurality of frames, the method...
7062095 Entropic encoding method and device  
A method of ordering bits in an N-bit status word (s[c]) adapted to represent the state of a coefficient (c) during an entropic encoding of the coefficient in several passes is adapted to modify...
7058130 Scene change detection  
In one embodiment, a scene change detection component of a video encoder uses motion vectors to determine whether a scene change occurs in a video sequence. The scene change detection component...
7058231 Methods and apparatus for data compression with a hybrid context  
A plurality of compression schemes are provided that achieve improved compression ratios. A first embodiment provides for compression of each pixel by one of a plurality of different entropy-based...
7054366 Systems and methods for MPEG subsample decoding  
A decoder decimates MPEG or other video data by subsampling the output of an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) module. The decimation process is useful for reducing the volume of data that...